T. Christian Miller | |
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 T. Christian Miller | |
| Born | 1970 (age 54–55) |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, author |
| Employer | ProPublica |
| Known for | Investigative journalism |
| Spouse | Leslie L. Miller |
T. Christian Miller is aninvestigative reporter, editor,author, andwar correspondent forProPublica.[1] He has focused on how multinational corporations operate in foreign countries, documenting human rights and environmental abuses. Miller has covered four wars—Kosovo,Colombia,Israel and theWest Bank, andIraq. He also covered the2000 presidential campaign.[2] He is also known for his work in the field ofcomputer-assisted reporting and was awarded a Knight Fellowship atStanford University in 2012 to study innovation in journalism.[3] In 2016, Miller was awarded thePulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism withKen Armstrong ofThe Marshall Project.[4] In 2019, he served as a producer of theNetflix limited seriesUnbelievable, which was based on the prize-winning article.[5] In 2020, Miller shared thePulitzer Prize for National Reporting with other reporters fromProPublica andThe Seattle Times. WithMegan Rose andRobert Faturechi, Miller co-won the 2020 award for his reporting onUnited States Seventh Fleet accidents.
Miller grew up inCharleston, South Carolina. His mother, Linda Miller, was a member of the local school board who focused on integration issues.[6] His father, Donald H. Miller, was a research biochemist at theMedical University of South Carolina.[7] Miller graduated fromBishop England High School.
Miller began his career in journalism at theUniversity of California at Berkeley. He majored in English and minored in French while becoming the University Editor of theDaily Californian, an independent campus newspaper.[8] After college, he worked for theSt. Petersburg Times, now theTampa Bay Times.[9]
In 1997, he went to work for theLos Angeles Times. While at that paper, he covered local, national and international news, opening the newspaper's first bureau inBogota, Colombia. Miller was briefly held prisoner by the leftist Colombian guerrilla group known as theFARC, or Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia,[10] an episode later documented in ashort animated news feature.[11] Two of his reporters were later held captive by a second Colombian leftist group, theELN, or Ejército de Liberación Nacional.[12]
Miller's investigative reporting in Colombia uncovered that a contractor for an American oil company,Occidental Petroleum, had helped to coordinate the bombing of civilians by the Colombian Air Force of a small town in northeastern Colombia which left 17 dead.[13] His coverage of the Santo Domingo bombing led to the U.S. suspending military aid to the Colombian Air Force[14] and to a judgement by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemning the Colombian government.[15]
Miller became a national correspondent for theLos Angeles Times based in Washington, D.C. While there, Miller served as the only journalist in the U.S. dedicated exclusively to covering theIraqi reconstruction.[16] Miller published a book on the subject,Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives and Corporate Greed in Iraq.[17]
In 2008, Miller was one of the founding employees ofProPublica, an independent, non-profit start-up dedicated to investigative reporting. While atProPublica, Miller has published investigative projects with various news organizations, including theLos Angeles Times,[18]The New York Times,[19]The Washington Post,[20]Newsweek,[21]Salon,[22]National Public Radio,[23]This American Life,[24] ABC News20/20[25] and PBS'Frontline.[26]
Miller is a leading figure in innovation in journalism, especially in transparency, trust and data-driven journalism.[27] He delivered the U.S. Army Creekmore Lecture in 2007, and has taught at theUniversity of Southern California,Columbia University,Stanford University,[28] theUniversity of California at Berkeley and theCollege of Charleston. He spent a year at Stanford University as a Knight Fellow, studying transparency and new models of journalism.[29] Miller has served as treasurer and board member ofInvestigative Reporters and Editors, or the IRE, the nation's largest organization of investigative journalists.
Miller has won numerous local, national and international awards. In 1999, he won theJohn B. Oakes Award for Environmental Journalism for his coverage of runaway growth in the Santa Monica Mountains. In 2004, he was awarded theLivingston Award for international reporting, one of the most competitive and prestigious reporting prizes in American journalism, for his coverage of children and war. In 2005, he won anOverseas Press Club award. In 2009, he won anInvestigative Reporters and Editors award. In 2010, he won aGeorge Polk award withDaniel Zwerdling of National Public radio for his work covering traumatic brain injuries in the U.S. military. In that same year, he was also given theSelden Ring Award for investigative reporting on private contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.[30] In 2015, Miller,Marcela Gaviria, and colleagues from ProPublica and Frontline were awarded twoNews & Documentary Emmy Awards,[31] theRobert F. Kennedy Center For Justice and Human Rights award for their work documenting the support given by the Firestone Company toCharles Taylor, Liberia's former president and a convicted war criminal, during that country's civil war.[32] In 2016, Miller, along withKen Armstrong ofThe Marshall Project, won thePulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for an article on theWashington and Colorado serial rape cases.[33][34] In 2020, he and several otherProPublica reporters shared thePulitzer Prize for National Reporting with members ofThe Seattle Times. WithMegan Rose andRobert Faturechi, Miller had received the award for their report onUnited States Seventh Fleet accidents.[35]
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